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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
Category Archives: Music
The Waifs’ Up All Night
The Waifs have an interesting back-story of months and years spent travelling the byways of their native Australia, playing in bars and on the streets, honing their skills — instrumental, vocal and songwriting. That hard apprenticeship accounts for the strength … Continue reading
Kristin Mooney’s Kristin Mooney
Kristin Mooney has made a contemporary folk album that defies easy categorization. The Minneapolis native has spent time in Nashville, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt her any. For this collection of a dozen songs, all of which she … Continue reading
The Kennedys’ Stand
Pete and Maura Kennedy are back with another healthy dose of their signature brand of upbeat, spiritual folk-rock. Stand is their sixth release since 1994, and their first for Koch. The Kennedys’ music is similar in tone to that of … Continue reading
Hair of the Dog’s Release the Hounds, At The Parting Glass, and Let It Flow
There’s something in the American soul, I think, that makes us all want to hop in the car and just drive somewhere far away, spend a few hours there, and then drive somewhere else, maybe farther away or maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music
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Shane MacGowan’s Popes’ Across the Broad Atlantic
Yet ‘nother CD featuring the vocal talents of Shane MacGowan, a man whose appearance would scare even the most hardened member of the Unseelie Court, showed up here for review this past week. (The photo on the Across The Broad … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, rock and roll
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Phil Cunningham, Kevin Burke, Susan McKeown, Aidan Brennan, Seamus Egan, and Solas’ Memorial Concert for Johnny Cunningham
Phil Cunningham sat alone on the large stage, eyes closed, as he wrung a slow, sad air from his custom Borsini accordion in memory of his brother Johnny. The Faerieworlds Festival crowd of several hundred, which moments before had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Johnny Cunningham
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Steve Reel’s Celtic Knights and The Unfortunate Rakes’ Rakes Alive!
This review was contributed by Mike Stiles. These two CDs benchmark the glorious growth of the guitar in Celtic music. I encourage those readers who haven’t yet checked out the Celtic scene to do so by bouncing off some familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Cordelia’s Dad’s What it is
Cordelia’s Dad is an indie rock band whose members have an ongoing love affair with really old-time American music. Throughout the 1990s they produced a series of albums that swung from punk to acoustic old-time and unaccompanied shape-note songs. On … Continue reading
Peggy Seeger’s Heading For Home
Peggy Seeger is a member of one of the pre-eminent families of music in America. The Seeger clan and their collaborators (and sometimes antagonists) the Lomaxes, together are largely responsible for the survival and revival of American folk music in … Continue reading
The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s The Cherry Red Jukebox
“Well Cracklin’ Rosie said Let’s Get it On (won’t you Bang a Gong) / with a wall of sound and Da Doo Ron Ron / Gasoline Alley, Roll Away the Stone / Yeah, we’re singing Elvis all the way home.” … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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